Who Among Us Are Teachers?

[Kralin Thornberry]

Just a thread to see how many teachers visit ENWorld. Please give your grade level, subject, years of experience and any thoughts you have about teaching you might want to share. I'll start:

7th grade
math
10 years
Some years are more difficult than others. This was one of those years... :\ (On a positive note-only 7 more days left! )

6th - 8th grade Special Education, and you name it and I've probably taught it this year. I've been teaching for 10 years now, and my job is like the Navy. It's not just a job, it's an adventure.

 

[Kralin Thornberry]

oops, double post.

 

[Pielorinho]

Right now, I'm the humane educator for Asheville Humane Society, amongst my other job duties; I'm putting together a lesson plan for this weekend on dog safety.

On June 1st, I cut back to part-time at my job so that I can go back to school and get my elementary education degree and teacher's certification. It's both exhilirating and terrifying.

Daniel

 

[Hijinks]

I've been teaching English as a Second Language abroad for nearly 10 years; though now I'm on the admin side more than the teaching side. I teach to Adults, mostly employees of Western multinationals.

Ah my dream job I looked into travelling back to Greece (lived there 3 years as a child) to teach ESL, but I couldn't scrape up the $2k or so it would cost for the TESL course and first couple of months living expenses. *sigh*

I was an English major and am not using my major in the slightest out in the real world. I would have loved to have been a teacher but since I'd already racked up $35k+ in financial aid debt to get my bachelor's, I couldn't handle more debt and many more years to get a teaching certificate.

 

[Jdvn1]

I'm planning to be a history professor. Does that count?

Ooh, I'm planning on being a math teacher. If you count, I count.

 

[Stormborn]

"Please give your grade level, subject, years of experience and any thoughts you have about teaching you might want to share."

Well,if we are talking about proffesional teaching I have been doing it off and on for the last 13 years, give or take. I have done the following:

Substitute Teaching - mostly High School, but some other, whatever they needed at the time about 5-6 years, with some of that time being very sporadic (it was all during college/master's work)

Missionary/Proffesor - College equivalent, Ethics and Theology, Kiev Theological Seminary. You think teaching is hard, trying doing it through a translator for 2 years.

College Adjunct Instructor - I have taught Speech and Communications for the last 3 and 1/2 years at a vocational college that is a regional (national?) chain. Sometimes I think of it as Grade 13, its very different than a traditional university setting.

I am also a minister and have been teaching in some capacity on a volunteer or proffesional basis since junior high, say twenty years.

 

[Rafael Ceurdepyr]

I just finished my 5th semester teaching Web Page Communication (AKA web design for journalism majors) in the Journalism and Mass Communication dept. at the university where I work as the web designer/editor/administrator. In my prior life I was an instruction librarian on the same campus, teaching information literacy to freshmen, and a reference librarian before that (10 years worth of library, in fact).

 

[Prof Yeti]

Not quite there yet, but will be soon. I am in my last semester before completing my certification. Then on to a full time position in Speech Communications and Theatre in a High School that will take me. But I have been working as a part-time substitute teacher (3 years) all over the Metroplex, while working as a Mediator.

 

[orsal]

What is your specific interest in mathematics?

Logic.

 

[dougmander]

Art
Grades 6-12
Been doing it for 5 years
I run an RPG club at school for about 20 kids